Subject: RE: advice...still have clutch woes
Author: Jason Telford
Date: Aug 17, 2005, 8:32 AM
Post ID: 1719310074
I'm pretty sure they are sintered bronze- at least that's what mine
looked like.
A year later (3K miles?), it is finally starting to make a slight amount
of noise. I was under the impression that the single-plates sound like
a tin cup full of angry nails, but mine has been very, very quiet. I
think I'm finally wearing through some of the lubricant (amsoil, heavy
trailer axle grease) that I put on the spline.
Before installing one, I read everything I could find about these
clutches. They've been used mostly in LeMans or outright racing type
applications where the rider is hard on the bike. The earliest account
I found of wearing out the plate was around 5K miles and this from a guy
who rode a LeMans loaded up with a touring pack most of the time. There
are few reports -that I've found- of the RAM wearing out. Bill, I
sincerely hope yours hasn't given up- that would suggest bad things
about mine in the near future. Anyway- I was under the impression that
when the disk wore out, the clutch would slip rather than bind. So
perhaps some of Greg's suggestions about lubrication is more likely?
J